Beautiful enemies [electronic resource] : friendship and postwar American poetry / Andrew Epstein.

By: Epstein, Andrew, 1969-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006Description: xvi, 359 pSubject(s): American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Friendship in literature | United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 811/.5409353 LOC classification: PS323.5 | .E67 2006Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Situating the avant-garde in postwar America: community, individualism, and Cold War culture -- Emerson, pragmatism, and the "new American poetry" -- "my force is in mobility": selfhood and friendship in Frank O'Hara's poetry -- Growing up with our brothers all around: John Ashbery and the interpersonal -- Amiri Baraka and the poetics of turning away -- "Against the speech of friends": Baraka's white friend blues -- "A rainy wool Frankie and Johnny": O'Hara, Ashbery, and the paradoxes of friendship.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-344) and index.

Situating the avant-garde in postwar America: community, individualism, and Cold War culture -- Emerson, pragmatism, and the "new American poetry" -- "my force is in mobility": selfhood and friendship in Frank O'Hara's poetry -- Growing up with our brothers all around: John Ashbery and the interpersonal -- Amiri Baraka and the poetics of turning away -- "Against the speech of friends": Baraka's white friend blues -- "A rainy wool Frankie and Johnny": O'Hara, Ashbery, and the paradoxes of friendship.

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